“In Arctic Voices, long–term issues of global importance—the exploitation of wild places for fossil fuels, and whether we’re determined to ride our energy binge to the grim end—are made immediate and vivid … One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. … In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where “voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.” May his heartfelt efforts magnify them.”—Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books

“The earth and her beings have been speaking. But we failed to listen. Arctic Voices compels us to listen. We will stay deaf at our peril.”
—Vandana Shiva

“A marvelous work, a marvelous land—hear the voices that call us to save these jewels of our planet.”—James E. Hansen

“Part of our failure to recognise the dangers at stake is that the Arctic still tends to be perceived as a big barren desert of ice, apolitical and disconnected from our political concerns, up for grabs. The book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point offers an encyclopedic approach to reframe such understandings.”—Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera

“Their reverence for, and connection to, the earth—its animals, water, mountains and land—is beautifully described in Arctic Voices, and each essay is as much a prayer as a call to activism.”—Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout

ESSAYSIn the Beautiful, Threatened North

By Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 4, March 7, 2013

Frazier’s generous essay is a review of Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point.

ECOZON@ is a journal of ecocriticism published by GIECO (Spanish Research Group on Ecocritical Studies) and EASLCE (European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment).

“In their entirety, the diverse texts gathered in Arctic Voices … give a multifaceted insight into a region whose ecosystems have already during the past century undergone substantial change through pollution, resource exploitation and military use. With global warming, direct and indirect environmental risks are multiplied. The volume’s most outstanding feature is that it shows the Arctic not as a sublime wilderness devoid of human beings, but as a region in which people have been living for a long time, and in which contemporary developments threaten not only nature, but in a great measure also indigenous cultures. … Through making both victimisation and resistance visible, Arctic Voices is itself an important contribution to the struggle for environmental justice in the far North.”

Where I Live I Hope To Know
An exhibition catalog published by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, May 2011
The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue of Subhankar’s desert series were made possible by a generous grant from the LANNAN FOUNDATION.

Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 13, 2013

Artist lecture and discussion with students
The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 14, 2013

Eco–Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
History of Art, University College London, March 2, 2013

Discussion with MA students
Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, March 5, 2013

PostNatural // SLSA Conference 2013
The 27th annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
University of Notre Dame, October 3–6, 2013
Subhankar will give a plenary speech at the conference on October 4
Some of his photographs will also be shown at the Snite Museum of Art, in conjunction with the conference.

The biennale presented an installation of Subhankar’s Arctic photographs with contextual material at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, one of the five biennale venues. He also wrote an essay titled, “Photography’s Silence of (Non)Human Communities” for the biennale catalog. His five photographs that were exhibited in the biennale are in the permanent collection of the Lannan Foundation.